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UK blogger marvels at Americans' love of pork

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 1, 2009 1:15 PM CDT

(Newser) – Bacon has been popping up everywhere, observes Hattie Garlick for the Times of London. Store shelves teem with chocolate-covered bacon, bacon-flavored vodka, and bacon-flavored donuts, but she almost couldn’t believe the latest culinary staple to get the pig treatment: coffee. “It's a beautiful... Read full story »

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